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On Sat, 21 Sep 2024 1:12:11 +0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Sep 2024 18:35:26 -0000 (UTC), Kent Dickey wrote:
>
>> 3) You want to clamp the value to a reasonable range and continue.  The
>> 	reasonable values need to be looked up somewhere.
>
> This won’t work. The values outside the range are by definition non-
> representable, so comparisons against them are useless.

When a range is 0..10 both -1 and 11 are representable in
the arithmetic of ALL computers, just not in the language
specifying the range.

So you are talking a language issue not a computer arithmetic
issue.